“ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.” Quote by Don Nickles
“Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.” ProcessVictorySubstanceWikipedia Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.” PeopleFeelsImportantCasesMovement Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.” WorldMeanClicks Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.” RunningSocialAchieveOrganizationEntrepreneurInspiredProfitMissionsFundNonprofits Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.” IfsWorldMayUseSchoolChurchRepublicanDiversityHigh SchoolHanging OutSecularIdeologicalWorld PoliticsSchool FriendsRedditHigh School Friends Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.” MayMomentsInterestAttentionMediaProduceResearchGunCrisisShootingIntensityGun ControlShort Lived Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.” IfsWayWantPersonsSaidNamesInterestingMy FriendsThey SaidTweet Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.” StoriesGrowing UpGrowingInternationalAverageFocused Author:Ethan Zuckerman
“The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.” DealsAcceptingBenefitsApproachConsequenceIntelligentThoughtfulGlobalization Author:Ethan Zuckerman